How is the exam (Part I ) structured ?

Francesco Marchioni

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posted 11 years ago

Here I am again, Dear guys...the exam is approaching, I wonder how is it structured.... I mean you have all the question in one shot so you can choose to answer at first the questions you're are sure about , or you must answer one question at the time (before proceeding the next one).

I really hope it's the first one.....

(I prefer to save the hard ones when most of the exam is completed...)

Part I is like any of the other multiple choice exams offered by Sun through Prometric - the questions are, indeed, presented one by one, but you can always mark a question and return to it. It's not a "you get one chance and it's gone forever" kind of issue.

Hope that reassures you.

Theodore Jonathan Casser
SCJP/SCSNI/SCBCD/SCWCD/SCDJWS/SCMAD/SCEA/MCTS/MCPD... and so many more letters than you can shake a stick at!

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